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eye and hand. The cavern must have been more than a 

 place of safety from wild beasts and a shelter from 

 storms, it must have been a place in which sedentary 

 habits developed the first glimmerings of esthetic ideas, 

 for we find upon the walls of these caves simple draw- 



From Birkner, " Der Diluvialo Mcnsch in Europa." 



FIGURE 34. Stone Implements of the Magdalenian Epoch. 



ings and elaborate color paintings of the rhinoceros, 

 bison, and reindeer. Perhaps these pictures -had reli- 

 gious significance. We do not know. Symbolic signif- 

 icance of some sort they undoubtedly did possess. At 

 any event their artists passed away as did their tradi- 

 tions ages before the civilizations of Babylon or Egypt 

 began. 



The map in figure 37 shows the location of prehistoric 



